TELEGRAM TO V. I. MEZHLAUK AND K. Y. VOROSHILOV

Written:Written on June 1, 1919Published:First published in part in 1942 inLenin Miscellany XXXIV.

      Published in full in 1965 inCollected Works, Firth Ed., Vol. 50.

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	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,1975,

      Moscow,Volume 44,

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Mezhlauk,VoroshilovKharkovCopy to Melnichansky, Artyom, Kaminsky

ThePolitical Bureau of the Central Committee met on
June 1. In full agreement with Trotsky,, it firmly rejects
the plan of the Ukrainians to unite the 2nd, 8th and 13th
armies, and to create a special Donets
unity.[1]

Wedemand that Voroshilov and Mezhlauk fulfil their
direct task—that of building a strong Ukrainian army.
Tomorrow or the day after, Trotsky will summon you to
Izyum and give orders in more detail. Report more exactly,
more frequently and in a strictly factual way what you have
done and, in particular, how much army property
Voroshilov captured from Grigoriev and in other places.

Onbehalf of the Political Bureau of the C.C.,Lenin

[1]Thisrefers to the plan of the Ukraine’s army men to set up a
Revolutionary Military Council of the Donets Basin Front
subordinated to the Southern Front and consisting of the 2nd Ukrainian,
the 8th and the 13th armies. The plan was communicated to
Lenin from Kharkov on May 31 by a telegram from the
authorised agent of the Council of Defence.